On Thursday, September 24th, actions against the budget cuts, fee hikes, layoffs and furloughs at University of California campuses took place throughout the UC system.

On September 24th, students at UC Santa Cruz began the occupation of the Graduate Student Commons as part of a day of action at all UCs across the state. The building is located in a central location on campus, across from the Bay Tree Bookstore. The occupation is continuing into the weekend.

On the same day, the UC Berkeley campus started with picket lines and teach-outs happening around campus, with a mass rally and march and a general assembly in the evening to plan the next steps forward.

The Berkeley protest was one of many held across California in an unprecedented day of action directed at university authorities and state governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Faculty, students and unions from the University of California's 10 campuses including its two most prestigious, UCLA and Berkeley, joined forces in what was the biggest student protest for more than a generation.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Heads of State of 20 of the most powerful governments in the world, representing 19 countries and the European Union, met in Pittsburgh, PA on September 24th and 25th.

Our comrades were prepared to demonstrate against the capitalist policies of the G20. The demonstrations started on Thursday afternoon, lasted until 4 am and continued on Friday. Blockades, marches and intense rioting were present all over the city, especially in the downtown area of Oakland.

A protest march starting at 2:30pm made its way towards the downtown area where clashes broke out between riot police and rock throwing demonstrators.

Later another march leaving from friendship park in the Bloomfield neighborhood ended in clashes with police and windows broken at a Boston Market, and a bank. Rioters dressed in all black and wearing bandanas weaved their way through Pittsburgh screaming, “We’re here we're queer, we're anarchists we'll fuck you up!." Pittsburgh residents were cheering and raising their fists as the crowd marched by. Many other people, joined the march.

Some of the protesters used bricks and hammers to bash in windows to McDonald’s, Kinko’s, The Pitt Shop, Rite Aid, American Apparel, Quiznos, iHop, a recruiting station, and a police sub station among others. They also lit dumpsters on fire.The group eventually joined the people protesting in Schenley Plaza and around the Cathedral of Learning just in time to hear the police declare the event an “unlawful assembly,” over a loud speaker system.

Police threw dozens of canisters of gas and used for the first time in the US, LRAD cannons to disperse the crowds. Despite the attempts of the police to re-establish "order", the chaos that wrapped the city for several hours was uncontrollable. Decentralized actions, black blocks, student marches and crowds of angry neighbors paralyzed Pittsburgh for two days.

From the documents:"Again your job is to document, as thoroughly as possible, any incidents, arrests, or misconduct (by police or protesters) that take place. Document everything the police and protesters do as thoroughly as possible." "Stay vigilant at all times. Look for signs of potential trouble such as protesters wearing masks..."Which side are you on?

Monday, September 07, 2009

An early start to "Black September" in Chile...A group of 'encapuchados' attack the precinct of the plainclothes investigative police (PDI) outside of the Unversidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (UAHC) campus in Santiago. Reports are coming in that at least two people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

(from corporate media):Chilean police authorities continue to track down the estimated 50 hooded protesters who mobbed a Providencia police building Wednesday afternoon, leaving one detective injured and prompting a major university to close its doors. As of early Thursday morning, police had captured two suspects. The attack on the Homicidal Brigade of the Investigations Police (PDI) - Chile’s plainclothes detective force – was apparently launched in protest of the upcoming Sept. 11, 1973 coup anniversary that ousted President Salvador Allende. During the 10-minute attack, college-aged protestors tossed Molotov bombs, rocks and cans through the building’s windows and at police officers who tried to stop them.

Chilean police authorities continue to track down the estimated 50 hooded protesters who mobbed a Providencia police building Wednesday afternoon, leaving one detective injured and prompting a major university to close its doors. As of early Thursday morning, police had captured two suspects.

The attack on the Homicidal Brigade of the Investigations Police (PDI) - Chile’s plainclothes detective force – was apparently launched in protest of the upcoming Sept. 11, 1973 coup anniversary that ousted President Salvador Allende.

During the 10-minute attack, college-aged protestors tossed Molotov bombs, rocks and cans through the building’s windows and at police officers who tried to stop them.

Violent public outbreaks are commonplace around Sept. 11 in Chile, but protestors struck days earlier than expected this year, angered by recent clashes between police and Chile’s Mapuche population, the nation’s largest indigenous group, in Region IX.

"No more deaths will be accepted, all will be avenged," read a banner that mobbers waved, alluding to the controversial police shooting of 24-year-old Mapuche activist Jaime Mendoza Collío, who died Aug. 12 from a bullet would to the back (ST, Aug. 25 ).

Signs bore the names of Collío and anarchist Mauricio Morales Duarte, who was killed in May when a bomb he carried in his backpack exploded.

From a communique written by participants in the action:

“At the beginning of our demonstration a detective from the Homicide Brigade proceeded to attack one of our comrades, we beat him back. Because of this the rest of the detectives came out to defend him using their arms against ours. With automatic rifles, pistols, revolvers, sub machine guns and shields they tried to disperse us, but our revolutionary conviction and our rage, which make us realize that we are fighting for our people and in memory of those who have fallen in the struggle, was stronger than their weapons.… The PDI has characterized itself by its oppressive character as we have seen in Wall Mapu, where together with Carabineros and the army they have militarized the zone and developed a counterinsurgency to destroy the Mapuche struggle…

With rocks, Molotov cocktails, and paint bombs we confronted the bullets of the PDI, and forced them to stay locked up inside of their station…”

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Chile-On August 12th the Carabineros (Chilean National Police) shot and killed a 24 year old Mapuche activist, Jaime Mendoza Collío.¨24 year-old Mapuche community member, José Facundo Mendoza Collío, died this afternoon, after a group of families belonging to the Requén Pillán Community of the Ercilla area, occupied the San Sebastián estate located 12 kilometres west of Collipulli, township of Angol.¨ Repression in Mapuche territories in the central and southern regions of Chile has grown as land occupations by Mapuche spread. Riots have broken out in Santiago calling for revenge for this Mapuche warrior.-----Jaime Mendoza Collío, Mapuche de 24 años fue asesinado por los Carabineros el 12 de Agosto.Mas info por Hommodolars

-----Video showing other Mapuche killed by the Carabineros and the response to the shootings in Santiago:

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

On Saturday night a small march left from Tompkins Square Park in NYC's Lower East Side. The was march called in solidarity with indigenous groups fighting the Peruvian government who had been massacred in the Amazon, resistance to the right wing coup in Honduras and the anti fascist demonstration being held in Greensboro North Carolina the same day. From the call: "There is a war going on that we are involved with daily, for some it is a low intensity conflict that is often difficult to see clearly, for others it is crystal clear. Capitalism is involved in a constant offensive against all of us who dare stand in its way or who try, in vain, to carve out a space autonomous from the dominant order.

Throughout the Americas, and the world, we see this conflict played out. In 2 months alone dozens of indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon have been massacred because they stood in the way of Capital's advances. In Chile our comrades face imprisonment and massive repression as they continue to fight back against the democratic myth that keeps the dictatorial reality running smoothly. We remember, with rage in our hearts, Jaime Mendoza Collio, a 24 year old Mapuche militant, killed by police in a land occupation in Chile 10 days ago. In Central America the wealthy oligarchs have begun their counter offensive against the small gains that the left have made after years of military dictatorship and outright fascism.

Here in the US we see capitalism facing its most serious crisis in our lifetimes. We also see the radical right, fascist groups, and racialists of all stripes attempting to use this moment to their advantage. On Saturday the 29th the National Socialist Movement (American Nazi Party) is holding a gathering in Greensboro, NC where 30 years ago 5 anti-fascists were gunned down by fascists at an anti-KKK rally. Antifa from all over the US will be mobilizing to stop them. We stand in active solidarity with all of our comrades in Latin America, and the world, who are fighting against the state and capital.

We must grasp the totality of the current situation, see that we are living in a period of global civil war and begin to choose sides.Solidarity Means Attack!"-------

"The only choice our miserable lives allow is either the total destruction of a world dominated by government or to continue to drown in generalized barbarity."

A pamphlet entitled "Get Walking" was distributed to passerby and march attendees providing an important critique of latin american events...